Published 3/30/99
We have the examples of Waco,
Ruby Ridge and the Tuskegee
experiment, where our federal
government clearly repressed and
even killed innocent civilians.
Furthermore, in a less clear and more
indirect fashion, Americans die at the
hands of our federal government
every day through regulations that
keep lifesaving drugs out of citizens'
reach. Older Americans are
repressed into government control of
their lives through Medicare
regulations. The poor are repressed
in failing schools and declining
neighborhoods because of the
reverse incentives of government
programs.
So why doesn't NATO bomb
Washington, D.C., too? Surely it
deserves it as much as the Serbs.
--Gerald Klaas, Carmichael